Module 3 Class Activity #3 United States Government July 23-29, 2021 Name: ___________________ The activity is about presidential job approval ratings and the congressional action against the...

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Module 3 Class Activity #3 United States Government July 23-29, 2021 Name: ___________________ The activity is about presidential job approval ratings and the congressional action against the executive. It is required to complete two activities in this module. The class activity #3 sheet is available in Doc Sharing under Module 3. You can download and save this activity sheet in the form of MS-Word to your computer. Complete your activity in MS-Word, create your file using your last name (i.e., Choi_activity3.docx), and submit your activity sheet to the proper submission folder. Activity #3-1: Presidential Job Approval Presidents must try hard to affect the perceptions and attitudes of the American people. Reelection, as well as success while in office, depends heavily on public approval. Presidential approval ratings often rise and fall during a President’s tenure in office. Public approval of the president has been measured through public opinion polls for fifty years now. With the exception of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, all presidents since World War II have left office with lower approval ratings than they entered with. Presidential approval ratings are available at Wikipedia. Go to the Wikipedia web page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating and find “Historical comparison.” Q 1-1: Which president has had the highest job approval ratings? Q 1-2: Which president has had the lowest? Q 1-3: You can see Obama’s job approval ratings. What is Obama’s average job approval rating (approval average) during his presidency? For Trump presidency, disaggregated data based on demographic variables and historical data are also available at the Gallup Poll Presidential Approval web site at https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx. You can find Trump’s today job approval ratings and these ratings by demographic variables. Q 1-4: What is Trump’s job approval rating of “Latest job approval rating”? Q 1-5: What is Trump’s job approval rating of “Term average to date”? Q 1-6: What is Trump’s job approval rating of “Highest job approval rating to date”? Q 1-7: What is Trump’s job approval rating of “Lowest job approval rating to date”? Q 1-8: Why do you think President Trump’s job approval ratings have been changed over time? What factors most affect Trump’s job approval ratings and why? (You are required to write 100-150 words). Activity #3-2: Congress: Checks and Balances Go to Doc Sharing under Module 3 Documents on D2L. You can find a MS-Word file named “Congress: Checks and Balances.” Read two different papers in this file carefully and answer to questions below. Basically, I want you to provide well-thought and well-organized answers. Q 2-1. If Appelbaum is correct that our constitutional system is fragile because it depends on informal norms of cooperation to work, is congressional abdication as analyzed by Spalding actually a good thing rather than something to be worried about? That is, by deferring to the bureaucracy and executive action, does Congress allow the government to function even when the president and Congress cannot agree? (You are required to write 100-150 words). Q 2-2. What problems do you see with Spalding’s argument about Congress reasserting its lawmaking authority? Why do you think Congress delegates so much power to the bureaucracy in the first place? (You are required to write 100-150 words). > Your activity results should be submitted in Microsoft Word. > The activity instructions are available in Doc Sharing under Module 3. > Use the submission folder to upload your activity results. Worth 15 points Due: By 11:30 PM on Thursday, July 29, 2021